This file photo from 2008 shows people who took to the streets of Postville after an interfaith service at St. Bridget's Catholic Church. The march and rally passed by the Agriprocessors plant.

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Press-Citizen Editorial Board
| Our View

In the months after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raided the Agriprocessors meat packing plant in Postville on May 12, 2008, the Press-Citizen printed a number of guest columns discussing the plight of the undocumented workers and describing the raid's devastating effect on the town.

Those columns tended to focus on how the Postville story highlighted the need for national comprehensive immigration reform and provided a worst-case example of why the government should move away from such expensive, ineffective, community-devastating, large-scale raids.